Hugh Bonneville Quotes

#1. No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life

Nobuhiro Watsuki

#2. Show love! Love feels good!

Gia Allemand

#3. Young people are so often dissed by the media.

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#4. I always try to look for the best in most places.

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#5. I had girlfriends, but settling down was the last thing on my mind.

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#6. When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.

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#7. I have an excellent internal compass.

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#8. I'd love to retire somewhere like Winchester, where you have one foot on the pavement but a sense of being in the country as well.

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#9. I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

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#10. There are too many people on horseback today trying to prove themselves, trying to prepare, trying to get faster. They haven't discovered yet that it's not the fastest who make it to race day.
You only have to be the fastest of those who are left.

Maggie Stiefvater

#11. I certainly couldn't run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth.

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#12. You have no idea what's going to happen [in Downton Abbey] until you get the script. We roughly knew a couple of the key points that were going to happen, but when I got the last episode, I turned to the last page to check that I was still alive.

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#13. At 19, you know everything; by the time you're 40, you haven't got a clue.

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#14. I do realise how incredibly lucky I am.

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#15. I've had people come up to me in the past and say they enjoyed whatever show I've been in.

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#16. In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

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#17. Certain stories that you want to see resolve in certain ways are, and some aren't, but that's life.

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#18. To go to the White House is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. In fact, the building is not that big.

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#19. At home I have a Tibetan terrier. I'm still not sure if he's a genius or very thick. It's a fine line.

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#20. Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being.

Rumi

#21. I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.

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#22. I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.

Jack Jones

#23. A typical Christmas is me shucking oysters. I love them and I always get them in at Christmas.

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#24. The press mainly want to destroy a program by revealing what's coming up. For some reason, soaps like doing that.

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#25. Am I athletic? In my dreams.

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#26. Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer.

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#27. I've thought a lot about how if something horrible happened, and if it were like 'The Road' situation, I've decided I don't want to survive past the death of society as we know it.

Gillian Jacobs

#28. The Maker was a genius, he thought. Infinity resulted in insolence. But transience was the way one treasured what one had been given.

J.R. Ward

#29. After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

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